Сто година од смрти професора Војислава Ј. Субботића, родоначелника хирургије у Србији и првог редовног професора хирургије на Медицинском факултету у Београду (1859–1923)

Abstract

These days (December 4, 1923 according to the Julian calendar, or December 17, 2023, according to the Gregorian calendar) we mark the centenary of the death of the father of Serbian surgery, Professor Vojislav Subbotić, one of the two main founders of the Faculty of Medicine in Belgrade in 1920, one of the first (full) professors of the Faculty, the first professor of surgery, the first vice dean and the second dean, the first surgeon elected dean, founder and chair of the Surgery Department, founder and first head of the University Surgical Clinic, who held office of president of the Serbian Medical Society for a term of five years, who organized the “First Meeting of Serbian Surgeons” (1907) and the “First Yugoslavian meeting of operative medicine” (1911), the most versatile and most widely acclaimed Serbian surgeon of all time, whose pionieer achievements in vascular surgery remained unsurpassed for decades. The famous American surgeons N. M. Rich et al. wrote the following about his achievements in their article titled The Matas/Soubotitch connection published in the famous journal Surgery in 1983: “It is ironic that nearly 40 years passed before similar successful efforts were achieved during the latter part of the Korean Conflict (1952 to 1953)”.

Keywords: Vojislav J. Subbotić; founder of all branches of surgery; Serbia